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Smells like wet pants…
and try this one for a change
http://www.china.org.cn/video/2011-07/04/content_22915355.htm
Darwin foiled again as parents who have no biz passing their genetic material into the next generation attempted to correct that mistake through their negligence.
You clearly have never been a parent. Would you be happier if the kid was on a leash? That’s where you’re going.
Turn your head for just two seconds, and this sort of thing can happen. I’m happy to see this WIN for a good Samaritan bystander.
Sooner or later you have to give kids the autonomy to wander around. When you do so is a judgment call. Usually kids don’t get in to too much trouble. However, this escalator is something that many people overlook.
I don’t think this kid will try that stunt again.
If a leash is what it takes to keep the kid out from under a BUS or something that will KILL him, then YES, BY ALL MEANS put a leash on him/her.
1 hell of a lucky kid and defiantly a very good Samaritan!!
wtf? how can you call destroying a perfectly fine fail-video good?! It would’ve been funnier if the guy didnt catch the kid
All right, how ’bout this, if you think it would have been funnier for the kid to have fallen and landed without anyone to catch him, go to a mall and do this yourself. Hopefully no one will catch you, you die and everyone can go on with their day and I’ll be able to watch a perfectly good “fail video”. Good damn moron
good for falling for a troll, real fail here is here. Obvious troll was obvious.
Yes, he was defiant to the end.
^^ High-five!
“Where were his parents?”
Yeah, that’s what I want to know, too. Do people just think children raise themselves these days?
Yeah, someone needs to be sued to pay the doctor’s bills for the herniated disks and physical therapy after catching about 50lbs dropped from 15′ up.
One day you will grow up and have kids of your own. Guarantee you will never be the parent you think you’ll be. You’ll never be able to watch them 24/7 nor will anything you do completely prevent them from eventually hurting themselves. Your kids will hurt themselves. They will do things the second you turn away. You will become one of those parents you so smuggly try to critisize now.
In fact, if you do somehow manage to succeed in closeting your kids from all the dangers of the outside world you’ll have accomplished nothing besides stunt their emotional growth and have insecure, spoiled brats who need their parents to solve all their problems for them.
Yes, watch you kids, try to keep them safe but don’t you dare think everthing will be perfect. Kids will act like kids despite you.
This is garbage. Kids hurt themselves playing sports, being clumsy, etc and accidents happen. Kids left alone in a mall who have obviously never been told not to play on something dangerous is NOT good parenting. Source: me, excellent parent of two young girls.
until they’re playin in the front yard and some creep in a van takes them.
You’re implying that playing in the front yard is equally risky as hanging on to the outside of an escalator 15 feet up?
Don’t you have an escalator in your front yard?
Holy crap 15 feet! That is such a dangerous height! One could totally twist an ankle at that height.
I think there are a couple factors you’re missing here. First, the child fell in an uncontrolled manner. From the look of it he would have hit the ground prone or head-first. Second, he’s falling onto a surface that is essentially steel reinforced concrete. An uncontrolled fall from that height (15 feet) onto a hard surface can actually be fatal. This is especially true if an impact of the head is involved.
Steve, you’re a trolling idiot… 15 feet is roughly 5 meters. Fully grown humans already have a 60-80% chance of breaking their bones from a 3 meter fall. In the case of this kid, a 9-11 year-old kid with under developed bone structure falling from FIVE meters would have had zero chance of survival from that fall.
That’s another thing though; the guy who caught the kid was lucky that he didn’t break any of the kid’s bones with the catch. No matter if he’s a good Samaritan or not, the kid’s parents would have sued the crap out of him.
-IF- the kid’s parents were american. The rest of the world would be happy to have a living child and thank the man. Perhaps buy him lunch.
Not all Americans are litigious pieces of sh¡t.
There is NOTHING creepy about vans giving free candy to children. The sign is probably spray-painted because the driver gave all his spare money to kids with cancer or something.
Is it a crime to love kids!?
“excellent parent of two young girls”
Where the hell are they while you’re on this site 0_0
Yeah really I hate people that say overly prideful stuff like that, honestly I bet Blah is one of those people who think their kids are perfect, never tell a lie, and will never leave mummy’s/daddy’s side.
Uh, given the time of his comment, IN SCHOOL. (Scary question- can you reproduce?).
Vicky, you do know that the time is only Failblog’s local time and doesn’t show the poster’s time? I certainly don’t read Failblog at 2:14 a.m.
Well why the hell not?
Yes. That is correct. However, if you ask me, the woman in question is speaking impeccable AMERICAN English. Remind me, where is that local time of Failblog based?
That’s right… in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
So, Vicky, scary question for you; Should YOU be able to reproduce?
Scrap the last part about the reproduction… I meant Barf instead of Vicky anyways…
Y’know, there’s four time zones here. PST could make her time 8 AM, which is not the time when most people are at work. Since her post doesn’t contain any specific American or British English phrases, her actual location is ambiguous. To sum it up: don’t jump to conclusions.
Kids are curious, they love testing boundaries. They are also sneaky, and if they recognize that a parent will yell at them for something, they learn to do it behind their back.
We can’t say for sure the parents aren’t neglectful, but we can’t say for sure that they are. This might just be a child being a child.
If you think your children wouldn’t go behind your back to do something you advised them against, you should be paying more attention.
Any parent that labels themselves ‘excellent’, or believes anyone else’s ‘excellent’ label of them is an idiot. You will surely fail soon enough though, be sure to blame it on other kids/society/television/internet.
Also, kids do stupid things, often. They do things they have been taught and told not to do, and they do not think everything through, it happens. All that is true for even the brightest of kids, never mind kids with learning disabilities and developmental issues. “Obviously never been told” you live in a fantasy world.
I’m grown up. I will *not* have kids of my own (guaranteed). But if I did, I would keep a careful eye on them ’cause I know they get up to mischief the second you turn away.
Which is why you NEVER turn away.
Saying “hey, it happens regardless” is an excuse, and I pity your children.
If you never turn away, how do they every develop judgement?
A good parent knows when to sit back and let the kid get hurt. If it will just result in a scrape or two then stay back. If its something that can really harm the kid than its better to be like a hawk and be there to stop it, smack them on the ass and say “NO!”. Keeping your kid safe and being overly protective are two different things. If some one wants to say something to me about how its not right to smack a kid on the ass as punishment, then I say to you, time out will not do s**t. I got smacked growing up, I learned from it. With time out I just waited and did the same thing right away.
Three cheers for minor impulsive physical violence against children! Hip hip…
Smack on bum =/= violence.
It doesn’t even need to hurt the child, just shock them so they know they’ve done bad.
So you’ve never had children, yet you can, with utter confidence, say you would NEVER turn away and anyone that does is a terrible parent?
You patronising w*nker.
+10
You need to save that post and paste it on any article where a parent is being criticized for being less than perfect.
Not all of us are going to have kids (and no, I’m not a teenager or something, I’m into my 30s). Granted, you can expect most people to have kids because that’s just what most people do, but it still really irritates me when people let their kids run around at all hours of the night, screaming and yelling and kicking animals. Yeah, I get that I have no experience being a parent so I can’t really speak about what it’s like to be one, and that you probably can’t watch them all the time, but it’s still a choice you decided to make. Indeed one of the main reasons I chose not to have kids is because I can’t realistically see myself being the kind of parent who could “do it right.” Then again, you may be right because at the end of the day I think people act first and only justify their choices with logic after the fact. I mean most major life decisions (career choice, relationships, etc) you make because you just “wanted to do” those things based on what you theorized, without knowing anywhere near enough about them in advance.
^this
that man WAS his parent.
yup
That guy that caught him probably was his father.
why is this little kid running free and alone in the mall? some people should not have kids.
Holy cow, don’t you ever let your kids do anything? You sound like a modern parent, raising an emotionally crippled kid who isn’t allowed to do anything, try anything, go anywhere, or take the tiniest risk.
And in a few years, you’ll set them free with a 300 hp, 2500 pound car, and expect them to be responsible.
Set your kids free, bruises are learning curves.
You equate oppressive control with modern parenting? Since when is that the case? It’s mostly the current generation of ignorant breeders preaching the “let the kids have freedom to explore” dogma. Well and good if you do it right, but what this usually amounts to is lazy parents trying to justify not being parents, and what results is an unruly little monster that won’t listen, and everyone else is supposed to celebrate its free spirit when it shrieks and whines in a restaurant or during a movie.
And as they get older, they refuse to calm down and sit still for two minutes at a time, and call them autistic or ADD–or as you phrase it, “emotionally crippled”.
But I’m all for stupid people letting the fruit of their loins do stupid things. The human race has subverted so many methods of natural selection, after all.
^ Well said.
I miss you Billy Mays
…letting kids have “the freedom to explore” does not make them Autistic or have ADD. How someone is raised does not create those issues, people are born with them. Having either will not make a child emotionally crippled, poorly behaved, or unruly. Use a better analogy in the future.
You are a moron, there is a difference between letting your children experience and learn, and letting your children nearly kill themselves. If that stranger wasn’t there they would be “setting their child free, full of bruises and learning curves right into a coffin”. I hope for the sake of children that you don’t have any of your own.
…and I hope you don’t either. Would you be teaching them to call people they merely disagreed with ‘morons’? Learn how to handle yourself in public and one day you MIGHT be ready to have a child.
Um . . . you let your kids do things when they’re old enough to do them. Wandering around alone in the mall? Not for a five-year-old. Nice try though.
I just want to point out that I had great very attentive parents, I was just a terrible kid. Well that not true but around this age I escaped many a time.
well, this was my initial reaction as well (I don’t have or want kids); but then I remembered my parents saying how when my brother and I were little, they would turn their head away for one moment and we’d be off doing something risky.
Correction, people should not have kids.
This guy CAME with the kid. You can see it at the very beginning of the video. Maybe HE is the father and didn’t watch his kid good enough?
^This
At the start of the video, he is walking by the kid, but there is no reason to assume they were together.
Except for the fact that he goes into a shop and then comes out maybe looking for the kid that should be beside him.
Guy was definitely with the kid. He had his back turned and had no reason to come back to the escalator other than the kid was no longer walking with him, yet he came running back. Kid probably would have been fine until his dad yelled at him that he was in trouble, and that is when he looked down. Like everybody else who looks down, he fell.
unless the kid could do a muscle up to get himself over the railing at the end of the escalator, kid would have still ended up falling.
Many kids of that age are no strong enough to lift themselves.
^THIS
What are the other people there do? just ignore the kid?
THAT’s the FAIL!
There are people going down the stairway WITHOUT pressing the emergency button!
Natural selection.
so true
how many people just going to the mall know where the emergency button is on an escalator?
There’s a red button at any extremities of the escalator, and everybody has already noticed it!
Even if they don’t know where the button may be; just going along is no option!
commentary fail
You know, even if that was my kid id still let it fall on his face xD teaches him not to get on the wrong side of the escalator. I would also mock the child and make fun of it for not making it to the top xD
Hey don’t be such a d1ck, buddy. Kid practically made it to the top.
All I can say is wait until you have kids of your own. You can’t watch them 24 hours a day to ensure that they don’t run off and do something stupid. In fact little boys like this deliberately wait until you are seated on a toilet or getting money out from a cash machine in order to run off and do the silly thing they have been imagining all day.
It’s called a leash.
Also, a stroller.
For a 9 year old? You know nothing, shut up
The guy who did the commentary is an idiot. The boy was only 4 and he was there with his dad (although I have no idea why his dad wasn’t watching him!) and the guy that caught him worked there.
The kid in the video isn’t 9, he looks like he’s between 2 and 4, perfect leash ages. And if you threaten a 9 year-old with a leash if he doesn’t behave, well then, I’m willing to bet he behaves.
Leashes are for dogs and future sissies.
YOU KNOW NOTHING
At that age I escaped / circumvented / destroyed several leashes and strollers. Kids are people 2, they’re actually pretty clever.
Not if you beat it out of them.
Go find a bridge to be grumpy under.
But when you take them in public….. yeah you should be vigilent. When you are at home sure slack off let him or her run around your house… but when you are in public i expect you as a parent to be watching you kid like you watch your purse or wallet.
vigilant**
When you’re at the mall, yes, you can. I have a “spirited” four-year-old.
That’s why there’s a second parent, or a sitter. Or a kid who’s been raised properly.
If you can’t devote your life to the kid, don’t have it.
look I think the same thing and I don’t want to have kids exactly for this reason – but it occurred to me at some point in life that pretty much every major life decision you make is something you couldn’t possibly have known enough about in advance. Like your career choice, if it’s something big you devote yourself for many years and make a major investment, without ever really knowing what the career is like until you actually work at it for several years.
Then the mother ran over, pummeling him with her purse and screaming “This man is trying to steal my baby!”.
Later the man was arrested and charged with kidnapping, child abuse, and, for good measure, child molestation.
Pedobear wears many disguises.
and they all lived happily ever after.
And the security camera caused the mother to be arrested because it is very difficult to photoshop video.
I love how the people on the escalator just stand there. If only the escalator moved faster, they could have been the heroes.
That child needs to learn to fear and respect that escalator! I hope his pants get caught and a bloodbath ensues!
THAT KID IS STILL ON THE ESCALATOR
That guy was with him lol. Mistake he corrected
It took the dad less then 10 seconds to realize his kid is not following him. Anyone that claims this could not happen to him has no kids or is lying.
^^^This!
I was hoping the man who caught him was the father too but then: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10166217
Then it takes him approximatively 5 seconds to retrace his steps, find the kid and run towards him. that makes nearly 15 seconds. However, the whole action took ~28 seconds… and still the dad doesn’t show up. The man seen at the end of the video doesn’t even look worried, like he doesn’t know the child. So he’s certainly not the kid’s father.
This could happen to any dad, I agree. But I’m pretty sure that particular dad is a bit more careless.
^^This
Here are the facts. The boy is four. The man is a shop keeper in Istanbul and was told of the boy playing on the escalator. This event happened in May, 2010. Here is a BBC link.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10166217
Mother Fail . . . . where the hell was she?
In the kitchen?
I like how you automatically assume it’s the mother’s fault, not the father.
sooooo yea..
maybe the 49ers should sign him. then maybe they wouldn’t have lost…
I went on a search to see if I could find more solid information and found this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10166217
According to BBC news the man was a shopkeeper who heard someone call out about the boy after he walked into the shop. The BBC’s video has an interview with the shopkeeper and everything.
Howzat!
As this video is as old as the hills, everyone should know the story behind it by now. The 4 year old boy in Turkey was caught by a worker form a nearby store. Not his dad, not 9 years old and not really a fail.
Similar thing happened at a mall I worked in, except nobody was there to catch the poor little dude and he busted his chin open but luckily he survied the fall. Kids will be kids, but yeah, good question – where are the parents!?
That man deserves a medal.
And then the good Samaritan was sued for inappropriately touching the child, and went to jail for 5 years where he was brutally sodomized.
lol
maybe he was lovingly sodomized, and with gentle care.
Way to c0ck-block natural selection. Kids that can’t figure out which side of an escalator to be on probably are going to grow up and get the gas pedal and break mixed up.
Or get the break and brake mixed up.
break, or fix??????? the break is a broken brake.
Everyone insulting this kids parents: you don’t know the circumstances, so don’t judge. Maybe they are neglectful and had let him run around the mall for hours on his own, but maybe they just took their eyes off him for a second and he wandered off in a daydream( as kids do)
My mother is a great parent, but when I was a child I got lost a couple of times. She had three kids under 5 to look after on her own and it just happens! You can’t keep your eyes permanently fixed on one kid, let alone three.
nothing bad ever happened to me because the vast majority of people will see a child walking around alone and will alert someone and keep the child safe. Occasionally maybe the child will grab on to the side of an escalator and fall (very rarely!). but it doesn’t necessarily mean the parents are awful people.
Most kids even at that age know stuff like this is dangerous, I know I did. Natural selection tbh
To everyone making “funny” comments, fu. A dad myself, I think this guy deserves the best BJ of all times (from his wife, in case he’s married)
Great save by that guy. Epic fail by the kid’s parents. It is not the world’s responsibility to watch kids you chose to have. Watch your children!
Dear failblog,
Can we have this video without the commentary? Just muted security footage will be plenty for us, thank you.
Mallrats.
^^ This!! I can’t believe I got all the way down to the very last comment before seeing someone else reference Mallrats. That’s the first thing I thought of!
“Listen, not a year goes by, not a year, that I don’t hear about some escalator accident involving some bastard kid which could have easily been avoided had some parent – I don’t care which one – but some parent conditioned him to fear and respect that escalator!”
he looks a lil smaller then a “12″ year old.
It’s like that guy KNEW what was going to happen beforehand. Hero!
Good post, Love it. Keep it up. I appreciate it.
Repetitive post. Hate it. Name links to spam. I don’t appreciate it.
Next time PLS let him fall and die! One stupid kid less who could share his gene…
I’d sue his ass! Kiddy fiddler…
that kid is back on the escalator again…
but this time, it is on Berjaya Times Square in Kuala Lumpur on the SIXTH FLOOR escalator….
There are many many people here who are not parents, yet feel totally comfortable telling those with years of experience as a parent how they should behave. All I can say to you is that I hope you maintain that smug attitude long enough to become parents yourselves.
Only then will you realize how wrong you were.
Kids are curious, you better believe that, when I was about 14 years old, I climbed on the metal beams under the overpass going over the freeway. I am still here today, I guess that I did not fall onto the freeway. I also climbed on the beams under a bridge going onver a river. This guy is a hero in my opinion.